The SIGI Country Report for Tanzania was prepared by the OECD Development Centre under the supervision of Ragnheiður Elín Árnadóttir, Director of the OECD Development Centre and Bathylle Missika, Head of the Network, Partnerships and Gender Division. The Gender Team was led by Hyeshin Park, Economist and Gender Programme Co-ordinator and the report was drafted by Carolin Beck, Pierre de Boisséson, Alejandra Meneses and Gabrielle Naumann-Woleske. Giacomo Gattorno provided statistical support. The production of the report was co-ordinated by Pierre de Boisséson, Junior Economist with the Gender Programme. The report was edited by David McDonald. Many thanks go to the OECD Development Centre’s Publications and Communications team: Aida Buendia, Delphine Grandrieux, Elizabeth Nash, Laura Parry-Davies, Irit Perry and Henri-Bernard Solignac-Lecomte.
The OECD Development Centre and UN Women are grateful for the strong and long-standing support of the SIGI Tanzania country study from the Embassy of Ireland in Tanzania. The OECD Development Centre is also grateful to UN Women Tanzania for funding the project under the UN Women’s flagship programme Make Every Woman and Girl Count (MEWC).
UN Women Tanzania offered extensive technical guidance and co-ordination between the partners throughout the project. Sadananda Mitra (UN Women Tanzania) provided invaluable technical and logistical co-ordination in Tanzania, in particular regarding survey design, preparation of methodological and technical documents and fieldwork supervision. The project also benefited from the guidance and support of Isabella Schmidt, UN Women Regional Statistics Advisor, Jessamyn Encarnacion, UN Women Inter-regional Statistics Advisor, Papa A. Seck, UN Women Chief of Statistics and Research and Hodan Addou, UN Women Tanzania Representative. Pielina Lamba and Marilyn Dominique (UN Women Tanzania) provided essential administrative and operational support to the project.
The conceptual framework, the data collection material and the report benefited from insights from several OECD and non-OECD colleagues, including Nelson Amaya (OECD), Chris Clarke (OECD) and Gaelle Ferrant (OECD) as well as Ruti Levtov (Promundo-US) and Ravi Verma (ICRW).
The OECD Development Centre and UN Women are particularly grateful to NBS and OCGS for their leadership and critical role in conducting primary data collection through household surveys and focus group discussions as well as for drafting the SIGI Tanzania Survey Report. In particular, special thanks go to Sylvia Meku (NBS) and Khadija Khamis (OCGS) for their valuable comments and technical guidance throughout the survey. Special thanks also go to Mariam Kitembe (NBS), Dadi Kolimba (NBS), Ramla Hassan (OCGS) and Oliva Kinabo (Embassy of Ireland) for the precious co-ordination and technical support. The OECD Development Centre and UN Women would also like to acknowledge Dr. Albina Chuwa, Statistician General (NBS), Mayasa Mwinyi, Chief Government Statistician (OCGS) and Ruth Minja, Director (NBS) for their overall guidance and support which were instrumental for the successful completion of the SIGI Tanzania household survey.
The OECD Development Centre and UN Women would like to thank the Ministry of Community Development, Gender, Women and Special Groups of the United Republic of Tanzania and the Ministry of Health, Social Welfare, Elderly, Gender and Children of the Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar.
Finally, the OECD Development Centre and UN Women would like to extend their sincere gratitude to all the members of the Technical Advisory Group who participated in the meetings and guided the implementation of the project through their regular feedbacks and advice. Special thanks go to John Mapunda (MoCDGWSG), chair of the TAG and to Selemani Mbuyita for completing the SIGI Tanzania Qualitative Report.